Cold Truths (part 1: The Missing Duke)

[Argent Silvermage]

Tyler searches the kitchen cupboards for anything to eat or make food with. If he finds nothing he will go through the door in the rear wall.

 

[Lazlow]

Going upstairs reveals a hallway with several doors, 3 on the left, one at the end and 2 on the right, each locked...

Alrighty. While still being sneaky, I'll listen to each door, starting with the closest and going back and forth (left and right) until I get to the one at the end (I'm listening specifically for sounds of any other squatters - Listen +5) After that, I'll start picking locks, starting with the room on the end (Open Locks +5 - if I'm confident that there's no one else here, I'll take 10 or even 20 to open them all).

 

[mps42]

Tyler searches the kitchen cupboards for anything to eat or make food with. If he finds nothing he will go through the door in the rear wall.

Searching the cubboards reveals some cracked dishes, a few crude metal tankards and a small sack.

Alrighty. While still being sneaky, I'll listen to each door, starting with the closest and going back and forth (left and right) until I get to the one at the end (I'm listening specifically for sounds of any other squatters - Listen +5) After that, I'll start picking locks, starting with the room on the end (Open Locks +5 - if I'm confident that there's no one else here, I'll take 10 or even 20 to open them all).

You hear no sounds behind any of the doors. Quickly trottin back to the first dor, you jimmy the crude lock and slowly open the door to reveal a small room. There is a table and a small dresser or bureau on the rear wall below a window and a rather large bed dominates the room.

 

[mps42]

Down in the main room there is now a warm fire going. "So where you boys from" Vax asks, "and, maybe more importantly, where ya bound?"

 

[Krug]

Woden looks at the man and sniffs him. He waits for the others to answer.

 

[Lazlow]

I'll search the room, including the dresser/bureau, for anything of interest, then move on to the next room. (Search +4, Open Locks +5)

 

[Mimic]

Down in the main room there is now a warm fire going. "So where you boys from" Vax asks, "and, maybe more importantly, where ya bound?"

Aleran leans forward and studies the man for a few moments. "We travel towards Armet." He says smiling at Vax. "We all met by happenstance really, and it seemed to be a good idea to travel together, brigands may pause at the size of our party, where a single man would be an easy target."

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Tyler pushs the door on the back of the kitchen wall open and enters/exits the room.

 

[mps42]

Woden looks at the man and sniffs him. He waits for the others to answer.

Vax looks at you as if not sure what you are doing, then slowly holds out his hand for you, turns tho the others and says quietly "bit of a rustic, aint he?"

I'll search the room, including the dresser/bureau, for anything of interest, then move on to the next room. (Search +4, Open Locks +5)

As you enter the room, you notice a strange, lingering smell. Sweet and flowery as well as sour. Searching the dresser reveals a small leather-bound book.

Aleran leans forward and studies the man for a few moments. "We travel towards Armet." He says smiling at Vax. "We all met by happenstance really, and it seemed to be a good idea to travel together, brigands may pause at the size of our party, where a single man would be an easy target."

Vax looks at you for a moment, as if confused, then throws his head back and lets out a throaty laugh "HA HA! BOY, you keep crackin jokes like that, you and me we gonna get on real good! This here wide spot in the road be Armet! I know she ain't much to look at but, she's been home fer me since the prince decided to stop the fightin'."

 

[Lazlow]

As you enter the room, you notice a strange, lingering smell. Sweet and flowery as well as sour. Searching the dresser reveals a small leather-bound book.

Hmmm... I'll take a quick look through the book, then search a bit more (take 20, what the hell, we've got all night) to see if I can find the source of the smell.

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OOC: Sweet, flowery, and sour, eh? That's making me hungry for some orange peel chicken with ginger sauce... [drool] Mmmmm... Chinese food... [/drool]